The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else

by Daniel Coyle

You will become clever through your mistakes. —German proverb

they are purposely operating at the edges of their ability, so they will screw up. And somehow screwing up is making them better. How?

The trick is to choose a goal just beyond your present abilities; to target the struggle. Thrashing blindly doesn't help. Reaching does.